KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232-3386 m seawater depth is obtained.

Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units / Collaboration, K., Ageron, M., Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Barbarino, G., Baret, B., Basegmez du Pree, S., Belias, A., Berbee, E., van den Berg, A.M., Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., et al.. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS. - ISSN 1434-6044. - 80:2(2020). [10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7629-z]

Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units

F. Ameli;A. Biagioni;A. Capone;S. Celli;I. Di Palma;P. Fermani;A. Lonardo;C. A. Nicolau;F. Simeone;A. Zegarelli;
2020

Abstract

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232-3386 m seawater depth is obtained.
2020
physics - instrumentation and detectors; high energy physics - experiment
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Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units / Collaboration, K., Ageron, M., Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Barbarino, G., Baret, B., Basegmez du Pree, S., Belias, A., Berbee, E., van den Berg, A.M., Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., et al.. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS. - ISSN 1434-6044. - 80:2(2020). [10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7629-z]
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